Josh Shapiro tried to celebrate law allowing convenience store sales of canned boozy drinks but left empty-handed

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    If I’m not mistaken, a lot of retailers are required to scan ID for every sale. Their registers won’t let them complete the transaction if they don’t scan a valid ID.

    That might also be some bullshit the checkout employee made up for the lady in front of me at the grocery store who got all bent out of shape when she had to go digging through her purse for her ID.

    They don’t need to card people who look old at bars and restaurants, though.

    • ArchAengelus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 hours ago

      In Pennsylvania, I believe liquor stores do have to scan ID for most purchases.

      Bars don’t HAVE to scan. The age threshold is fairly arbitrary. That said, there are companies who do contract stings/spot checks at bars (contracted by the owner of the chain, usually) to make sure they’re carding everyone.

      One of my friends lost a job because of said sting by an 35 year old employee (who definitely looked over 30) and a zero tolerance policy for failing said checks.

      So it makes sense to me that the bar wouldn’t provide alcohol to anyone without ID. That’s how they were trained.

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        11 minutes ago

        I worked wirh someone that got fired by a secret shopper they didn’t card. They got their job back after appeal because the secret shopper that was 30ish looked like she was 50. The secret shopper was let go because they had an abnormally high audit failure due to how old she looked.